Welcome to the December 2023 newsletter for the research software community at The University of Sheffield, featuring news, opportunities, events and training for you.
Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form the High Performance Software Foundation
British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web
Announcement for the location and theme of the SSI Collaboration Workshops 2024 - 30 April to 02 May 2024 at the University of Warwick.
Themes encompass: Environmental Sustainability, AI/ML tools for science, and Citizen science
NVIDIA Is A New Sponsor Of The Scikit-Learn consortium at the Inria Foundation
PyPi has completed its first security audit, you can read about what was audited, what was found, and how it was remediated in three parts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
CORE - The world’s largest collection of Open Access Research papers
UKRN Open Research Resources - Animations, Primers, Videos and Training Materials to Support Open Research
Ouvrir la science - Useful resources from French government funded open science initiative
From Ouvrir la science: Higher Education and Research Forges in France - Definition, uses, limitations encountered and needs analysis
Research Dream Team Toolkit - A resource intended to make it as easy as possible to organise a workshop aimed at raising awareness of and facilitating discussion around the diversity of roles that contribute to research.
Presentation and linked notes from a recent workshop by CiteSoftware group. Their aim is to drive the adoption of a common research software preservation and citation guidance website for the research community
Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community
Interesting piece on code complexity and software sustainability: The sustainability doughnut of scientific software
Retracted articles use less free and open-source software and cite it worse
A Comparative Study of Code Generation using ChatGPT 3.5 across 10 Programming Languages (pre-print)
The Luck of the Draw: Wellcome’s Institutional Fund for Research Culture
Digital Research Academy Train-the-Trainer program #3 - Starting in January 2024, Applications are open until December 15th 2023.
4th conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany - 05-07 March 2024
International Research Software Engineering Research (IRSER) Community Meetup - Online (UK time), 16-17 January 2024
Senior Research Software Engineer (Research Objects/FAIR Digital Objects) - Closes 8th Dec
Senior Research Software Engineer (Trusted Research Environments) - Closes 14th Dec
You can always check for advertised RSE and RSE-adjacent roles over at the RSE society’s vacancies board.
The DRPS community is a group for people that support researchers in carrying out research in the digital age. Meetings are held monthly, with discussions around events, training and opportunities related to the field.
You can join the google group here to stay informed.
The next meeting is scheduled for 2pm on Wednesday 6th December.
LunchBytes are short talks from the research community on research software, data, and infrastructure.
LunchBytes are organised by and for the research software community at The University of Sheffield. If you’d like to curate a session on a topic or present something, get in touch by emailing lunchbytes-organisers-group@sheffield.ac.uk - Or suggest topics on the jamboard.
Why not come to a Code Clinic? We’re keen to help you.
Code Clinics are fortnightly supported sessions run by the RSE team and IT Services’ Research IT team. They are open to anyone at TUoS writing code for research to get help with programming problems and general advice on best practices.
At each session, members of the RSE and/or Research IT teams will be available to review code, advise, troubleshoot, and suggest ways to improve your computational workflows.
HPC Drop-In sessions are providing assistance with HPC related user issues such as challenges in scaling an application from desktop to supercomputer. We are considering extending the number of our sessions to two or three weekly. These interactive sessions could provide a better interface with our users than our non-interactive ticketing system. These sessions are advertised on the HPC mailing list.
Alongside the HPC Drop-In sessions, Research IT are also running one to one consultations to solve in depth user specific problems. These consultations can be booked via our webpage. If you are interested please visit the following link: https://students.sheffield.ac.uk/it-services/research.
The Sheffield RSE Team aims to collaborate with you to help improve your research software.
They can provide dedicated staff to ensure that you can deliver excellent research software engineering on your research projects.
The Sheffield RSE Team provides free Code Clinics (in collaboration with IT Services), plus paid services that allow us to collaborate longer term.
Research IT directly supports research, both academic and commercial. We provide large scale HPC systems, advice on everything from statistics to ML to data pipelines and training for both students and staff.
Working with academics, our staff are embedded within research groups on both long and short term engagements.
For queries relating to collaborating with the RSE team on projects: rse@sheffield.ac.uk
Information and access to JADE II and Bede.
Join our mailing list so as to be notified when we advertise talks and workshops by subscribing to this Google Group.
Queries regarding free research computing support/guidance should be raised via our Code clinic or directed to the University IT helpdesk.